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astro-ph.HE2010★ 64 cited

Fermi-LAT observations of the exceptional gamma-ray outbursts of 3C 273 in September 2009

A. A. Abdo et al.

We present the light curves and spectral data of two exceptionally luminous gamma-ray outburts observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) experiment on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 338 cited

Detection of 16 Gamma-Ray Pulsars Through Blind Frequency Searches Using the Fermi LAT

LAT Collaboration

Pulsars are rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized neutron stars emitting radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Although there are more than 1800 known radio pulsars, until r…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 165 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope View of the Core of the Radio Galaxy Centaurus A

Fermi Collaboration, A. Falcone, H. Hase +2

We present gamma-ray observations with the LAT on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus~A. The previous EGRET detection is confirmed, and the loc…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 256 cited

Fermi Gamma-ray Imaging of a Radio Galaxy

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected the gamma-ray glow emanating from the giant radio lobes of the radio galaxy Centaurus A. The resolved gamma-ray image shows the lob…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 364 cited

Gamma-ray Light Curves and Variability of Bright Fermi-Detected Blazars

A. A. Abdo

This paper presents light curves and the first systematic characterization of variability of the 106 objects in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Bright AGN Sample (LBAS). Weekl…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 95 cited

Detection of the energetic pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its pulsar wind nebula in MSH 15-52 using the Fermi-Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

We report the detection of high energy gamma-ray emission from the young and energetic pulsar PSR B150958 and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in the composite supernova remnant SNR…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 211 cited

The Fermi-LAT high-latitude Survey: Source Count Distributions and the Origin of the Extragalactic Diffuse Background

LAT Collaboration

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at characterizing the populations detected in the high-latitude sky of the {\it Fermi}-LAT survey. In this work we focus on the intrin…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 193 cited

Constraints on Cosmological Dark Matter Annihilation from the Fermi-LAT Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Measurement

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +147

The first published Fermi large area telescope (Fermi-LAT) measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission is in good agreement with a single power law, and is not showing…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 437 cited

The First Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

A. A. Abdo

We present the first catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected by the LAT, corresponding to 11 months of data collected in scientific operation mode. The First LAT AGN Catal…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 118 cited

The Vela Pulsar: Results from the First Year of Fermi LAT Observations

A. A. Abdo

We report on analysis of timing and spectroscopy of the Vela pulsar using eleven months of observations with the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. The in…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 523 cited

The Spectrum of the Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission Derived From First-Year Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

LAT collaboration

We report on the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) measurements of the so-called "extra-galactic" diffuse gamma-ray emission (EGB). This component of the diffuse gamma-ray emi…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 58 cited

Discovery of Pulsed -rays from PSR J0034-0534 with the Fermi LAT: A Case for Co-located Radio and -ray Emission Regions

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been firmly established as a class of gamma-ray emitters via the detection of pulsations above 0.1 GeV from eight MSPs by the Fermi Large Area Teles…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 1.3k cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog

LAT Collaboration

We present a catalog of high-energy gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary science instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi), dur…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 198 cited

Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration

Nearby clusters and groups of galaxies are potentially bright sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission resulting from the pair-annihilation of dark matter particles. However, no s…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 199 cited

Fermi LAT Search for Photon Lines from 30 to 200 GeV and Dark Matter Implications

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +160

Dark matter (DM) particle annihilation or decay can produce monochromatic -rays readily distinguishable from astrophysical sources. -ray line limits from 30 GeV to 200 GeV ob…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 138 cited

Observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud with Fermi

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo

Context: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is to date the only normal external galaxy that has been detected in high-energy gamma rays. High-energy gamma rays trace particle acceler…

astro-ph.HE2010

Detection of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae with Fermi

N. A. Webb, J. Knödlseder

Globular clusters are known to harbour a significant population of neutron star X-ray binaries that could be responsible for delaying the inevitable core collapse of these dense cl…